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Royal Academy of Arts announces Details of GSK Contemporary 2009 Exhibition |
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| Written by Kathleen Soriano |
| Thursday, 29 October 2009 01:39 |
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Many of the artists featured are actively engaged with the issue itself, working directly to transform the global scale of climate change into a human narrative. Others have shown it to have a place, or to resonate, within their work. Earth will interconnect ‘issue’ and ‘art’, and will present works that are beautiful, powerful and thought-provoking. The exhibition will build on the power of the individual works to create an overall aesthetic, visual and experiential impact that explores some of the cultural impacts of climate change.  The exhibition will introduce the key elements that make
up the natural world, and the activities that affect the planet’s fragile
equilibrium. Works by artists including Ackroyd & Harvey, Spencer Finch,
Antony Gormley, Mona Hatoum, Marcos Lutyens & Alessandro Marianantoni,
Semiconductor and United Visual Artists engage with the earth, air, sky, nature
and carbon elements to encourage a deeper consideration of our cultural
relationship to earth’s stability. Artists such as Antti Laitinen, Edward Burtynsky, Gary Hume and David Nash will represent our contemporary world and will invoke a dialogue around the perceived security of our existence. At the center of the show, a group of exhibits will elucidate the role of the artist in the cycle of human and cultural evolution – as communicator, reflector and interpreter of key issues of the day. Within this section artists such as Darren Almond, Sophie Calle, Tacita Dean, Kris Martin, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Cornelia Parker, the poet Lemn Sissay and Shiro Takatani hold up a mirror to our changing world, producing work that will encourage us to examine the issues from a variety of angles, to reflect and question. Other works will confront the viewer with the consequences of human behavior through natural disasters and physical collapse, counterpoising the beauty of the planet with the damage that is being inflicted upon it. The exhibition concludes with works that present a world of vision and of hope, but through the glass of reality. These works will reflect notions of beauty and inspiration fundamentally re-defined by climate change. This subtle shift represents the first major change in our view of the world since the first ‘whole earth images’ emerged as photographs taken from Apollo 8 in 1968, an image that anchors our contemporary perception of the beauty and fragility of the earth that has germinated new notions of care and empathy for our habitat. Works by artists such as Tracey Emin, the writer, Ian McEwan, Mariele Neudecker, Keith Tyson and Emma Wieslander will offer insight, vision and hope, responding powerfully to this cultural shift, some with a celebration of beauty and what we stand to lose. These artists approach this shift from various perspectives: some engaging with the rigor of scientific endeavor, others through the use of imagined worlds, film and music, delving into the emotional understanding of knowledge. Visit the Royal Academy of Arts at : http://www.royalacademy.org. Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
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